Things you feel "Mass Effect: Andromeda" does well

Meh, the Progenitor lasts barely over 10 seconds with a good weapon and Tactical Cloak + Turbocharge. (I do like the old chap, and wish there were at least a half dozen more of those in the game.) As you say, BioWare has never been strong at building good fights. The good news is that they seem good at designing fun combat gameplay in the ME series. I'd put MEA up against anything, in terms of good gameplay. The unfortunate result is that they hand us the tools to easily crush or obviate every challenge they create. At least it's fun in most cases.

I suspect they have never tried to create a balanced challenge beyond Insanity because so few play it. That's always frustrated me, because most of those too scared or disinterested to try would find it easy if they put in the effort to adjust. It's not much different from any other setting. In turn, more Insanity players would maybe push them to up their game, not just in terms of "Super Insanity" difficulty, but preferably in better designed challenges.

Like I said, though, even as easy as it is, I always enjoy playing it.

EDIT: ahglock, I think the issue is that some "classes"/builds/whatever encounter a foes they can trounce, even at low levels. Other builds encounter a lengthy grind. Some players can find excitement amidst the grind, others just get bored. The Architects provide a weirdly uneven experience, and every one is the same. I think they're okay, but not great, foes.

I agree with your idea of continued aggression during those spawning phases. That would've been cool. Even a little breacher could drag you out of cover to your doom.

Those can be challenging especially on lower levels. I like the challenge.

The one thing it did truly well was shoot down my expectations. I was able to find enough enjoyment to finish my one and only playthrough but feel no need to go back to it.

Bioware for the longest time was my favorite developer but with the latest releases of DA2, DAI and MEA I've lost a lot of interest in them.

And no...I'm not hating so don't come at me with that crap!

Not really, but how terrifying would this be?!

To give credit where it's due. It really did separate SP and MP to a point where you don't have to touch MP to get any SP rewards.

Her pre release definitely. Not now imo.

You don't find them like 2x too big?  They just don't seem natural...which for me is unfortunate because in the context of the right playthrough I think she has good potential as a companion.  I just can't get by the disconcerting look.

 But even millennials hate millennials, right, as the source of everything wrong in the universe? Damn millennials! 

I’ll admit, the Ryders (particularly Sara) do often annoy me; and a lot of it is their youthful behavior (which I see as variably as goofiness, immaturity, ineptitude). Maybe too many ME fans are now grumpy old guys like myself? I still like the game a lot, but I can see all the things that prevented others from liking it.